The
Washington
Post says that Ken Cuccinelli, who is running for governor of Virginia,
has an image problem because he has described sex between homosexuals
as “wrong” and branded President Obama’s team as “the
biggest set of lawbreakers in America.”

When
one reads the front-page Post article with these assertions, it is hard
not to wonder whether the paper is being serious or comical. If it is
serious, then the attempt clearly is to make it appear as though Cuccinelli
has an image problem that he can only solve by acting and thinking like
a Democrat.

Welcome
to the world of The Washington Post, which wants to influence political
races across the country, but especially in neighboring Virginia.

But
there’s more: “As Virginia’s attorney general, his targets
have included abortion-clinic rules, climate scientists and the Environmental
Protection Agency, which he has derided as the ‘agency of mass destruction.’”

Can
you believe that this guy wants medical “rules” and standards
to apply to the abortion industry? And that he has criticized the federal
government for destroying private businesses in the name of a theory about
man-made global warming that is in dispute among scientists?

These
are additional sins in the eyes of the Post, which wants to influence
the race on behalf of Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a former Democratic National
Committee chairman.

In overall
terms, according to the Post, Cuccinelli has “established himself
as a combative icon of the tea party movement” and “has endeared
himself to conservatives while inflaming Democrats.”

The
print version of the article wondered if Cuccinelli would “soften”
his image while the online version was headlined, “Cuccinelli’s
test: Winning centrists without losing conservatives.”

The
liberal bias of the Post is legendary, but it is helpful on occasion to
dissect how the slanting of the “news’ is actually carried
out on a day-to-day basis.

If it
is true that that Cuccinelli is trying to soften his image through a
TV commercial featuring his wife talking about his humanitarian causes,
then that is the result of a campaign against him that has been featured
in the pages of the Post, depicting him as harsh, rigid and ideological.

It is
a typical ploy—to portray the conservative as an extremist.

If this
paper finds it objectionable that Cuccinelli, a Catholic, would describe
homosexuality as “wrong,” then you know that the Post is offended
by any number of traditional conservative beliefs and practices. Indeed,
the Post is a long-time Democratic Party paper that only pretends to be
fair to the other major political party. The Paul Schwartzman article
about Cuccinelli is only one of the most brazen examples of how the bias
is implemented in practice.

More
than two years ago we
noted that the Post relentlessly hammered Cuccinelli over his opposition
to Obamacare. But his legal action against the socialized medicine scheme
was vindicated by a federal court.

Now
consider how the Post has covered McAuliffe’s refusal to release
his tax returns. It was covered in a
story headlined, “McAuliffe releases abridged tax information,
reports $8.2 million in income in 2011.”

The
term, “abridged tax information,” is another way of saying
that McAuliffe did not release his tax returns so the public can fully
understand how he made and spent his money. Cuccinelli opened eight years
of tax records—a total of 225 pages—to the media, the story
noted.

But
if you think the Post will run a front-page story about McAuliffe’s
image problem as a result of this concealment, you have another thing
coming.

Ditto
for McAuliffe’s image problem that has resulted from his involvement
with a “green” car venture linked to a Chinese businessman
and offshore tax shelters.

The
firm, GreenTech, is a subsidiary of Capital Wealth Holdings (CWH), an
investment company incorporated in the tax shelter country of the British
Virgin Islands, and was founded in 2009 by Chinese businessman Charles
Wang.

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McAuliffe,
a part-owner of GreenTech who stepped down as chairman four months ago,
has
been grilled by Ryan Nobles of NBC’s Richmond, Virginia affiliate
NBC12 about why the car company failed to follow through on a plan to
build a factory in Virginia, and instead moved it to Mississippi. The
company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Watchdog.org,
an affiliate of the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity,
ran
a 17-part series on the car company.

You
can bet the Post will do its best to ignore or play down this major issue
in the Virginia gubernatorial campaign. It is determined to protect McAuliffe’s
“image” as a respectable businessman while savaging Cuccinelli.